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Gender in Humanitarian Action

Department and Center Events

Thursday, September 28, 2023, 12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. ET
Location
Wolfe Street Building/W3008
Online/Onsite
Past Event

This event supports the launch of the Lancet Commission report on peaceful societies through health and gender equality. The Lancet Commission provides evidence that health and gender equality have a unique and powerful ability to contribute to more peaceful societies. The report urges the humanitarian community to take tangible action to promote gender equality and embrace the importance of gender equality, integrate gender equality into the principle of humanity, and adopt gender-equal benchmarks within health sector responses. 

During the event, participants will hear about the Commission’s findings and implications for the humanitarian sector, in addition to work by JHSPH factor to promote gender equity within humanitarian health. 

Moderators:

Rosemary Morgan, Associate Scientist, Department of International Health; Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Paul B. Spiegel, MD, MPH Professor of the Practice, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health 

Panelists:

Valerie Percival, DrPH, MA, Associate Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Carleton University Caren Grown – Senior Fellow – Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

Kate Falb, ScD, MHS '07, Associate Professor, Department of International Health; Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Caren Grown, Ph.D. and MA, Senior Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development, Global Economy and Development

Zulfi Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; co-chair of the Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health and gender equality.  

This event is co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and the Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity.

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